Building Bridges: Health Center Strategies for Maintaining Relationships with Growers, Contractors, and Employers
Year Developed: 2024
Resource Type: Publication.Primary Audience: Enabling Staff
Outreach Staff
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff
PCAs
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Center for Farmworker Health (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: NCFH developed this publication to provide strategies, specifically for health centers, for maintaining relationships with growers, contractors, and employers that employ Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs).
Resource Details: This resource provides three strategies that are a compilation of successful approaches health center staff and outreach specialists have used to maintain relationships with employers to increase MSAW access to essential health care services. This resource also includes recommended actions for implementation of each strategy with associated tools and resources to support the action linked. This resource concludes with a Relationship Action Plan Template to support health center staff in implementing the strategies.
Resource Topic: Special and Vulnerable Populations, Workforce
Keywords: Access to Care, Agricultural Workers, Communication, Transparency, and Outreach, Community Engagement, Community Health Workers, Migrants, Outreach, Planning.This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.